Happy 4th of July, America...Best of Luck, Egypt

The Egyptian military has responded to the clear desires of at least half the Egyptian people by ousting President Mohammed Morsi and his Moslem Brotherhood supporters in a swift series of actions that cut through Cairo political centers. Morsi is now under the control of the Republican Guard, arrest warrants have been issued for 300 Brotherhood leaders, the president of the constitutional court has been named interim president, a plan for rewriting the new and detested constitution is being formulated, and new presidential elections will be held when the constitution is ready. One would have thought that the United States would be happy to have been given a second chance to come down quickly on the side of the Egyptian people in their quest for self-government. But no. In a firmly worded statement, US President Barack Obama called on the Egyptian military to relinquish power to a democratically elected civilian government and to resist arresting ousted President Mohammed Morsi and his supporters. He also said the US will review whether Egypt is still eligible for $1.5 billion that Washington gives in economic and military aid annually. In what seemed like an after-thought or a bone tossed to the Egyptian people, Obama added "that, ultimately the future of Egypt can only be determined by the Egyptian people." "It is up to the Egyptian people to ensure that Egypt's transition to democracy succeeds," Obama said. ~~~~~ Dear readers, here are some of my thoughts : *The Moslem Brotherhood are bad guys affiliated with Hamas and they are progressively strangling freedom in Egypt under the aegis of a very weak president who is simply an Islamist. *The president of the respected constitutional court is interim president and opposition leader and spokesman ElBaradei supports him and the military, as do tens of millions of Egyptians. *All else aside, Morsi was driving Egypt to bankruptcy and failed-state status because he is incompetent to lead. *The 2012 "election" was a farce...the courts threw out candidates until it was either a Mubarak cronie or Morsi and for this reason 50% of Egyptians boycotted the election and didn't vote. *The "constitution" is the document forced through by the Brotherhood to secure their hegemony and keep democratic government at bay. *Morsi and the Brotherhood have stonewalled all calls for dialogue or negotiation from any non-Brotherhood non-Islamist group. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness." ___The American Declaration of Independrnce. 4 July 1776. ~~~~~ We are with you in your struggle for freedom and self-government, Egypt, and we wish you swift and sure success.